Stella Chen won first prize at the 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Competition, and was awarded a 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. She recently made debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Baltimore Symphony, and Belgian National Orchestra, and appeared at the Vienna Musikverein and Berlin Philharmonie.

In recital, recent appearances include Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Phillips Collection, and Rockport Music. She appears frequently with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center both in New York and on tour. Highlights this season include the US premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Second Violin Concerto under the direction of the composer, and the world premiere of a new violin concerto written for her by Jon Cziner.

For her all-Schubert debut album, released in March 2023 on the Apple Music label Platoon, Ms. Chen was named Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards. She is also the inaugural recipient of the Robert Levin Award from Harvard University, where she was inspired by Robert Levin himself. Teachers and mentors have included Donald Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, and Catherine Cho. She received her doctorate from the Juilliard School, where she serves as teaching assistant to her longtime mentor Li Lin. She plays the 1720 “General Kyd” Stradivarius violin, on generous loan from Dr. Ryuji Ueno and Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative, and the 1708 “Huggins” Stradivarius courtesy of the Nippon Music Foundation.

George Li performs this season in Indonesia, China, Germany, the Czech Republic, and in the United States with the Cincinnati Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, and Florida Orchestra. Other recent appearances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, New World Symphony, London Philharmonic, and Philharmonia Orchestra. He has also toured Europe with the Moscow Philharmonic and Mariinsky Orchestra. In recital, he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, the Verbier Festival, and Ravinia Festival. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in September 2017.

Mr. Li is an exclusive Warner Classics recording artist, with his debut recital recorded live from the Mariinsky Theatre. His second recording for the label features solo works by Liszt and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, recorded live with Vasily Petrenko and the London Philharmonic. His third album will feature solo works by Schumann, Ravel, and Stravinsky.

Mr. Li gave his first public performance at Boston’s Steinway Hall at the age of 10, and in 2011 performed for Barack Obama at the White House in an evening honoring Angela Merkel. Among Mr. Li’s many prizes are the silver medal at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a Gilmore Young Artist Award, and First Prize at the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory, continuing to work with Wha Kyung Byun.